Perversion of Rewards

I have been working at a hospital now as a doctor for 3 months and I already want to kill people. I guess I understand where Kevorkian started. But I get ahead of myself and should explain my reasoning.
I as a physician am required by law to treat patients who do not want to be treated nor pay for the services. And should I refuse to treat said patients I can have license revoked, and am open to lawsuits. I treat patients who use medical care and time, who have zero intention of following medical advice. I have patients who it 5 minutes of Internet research, know more about their "illness" and "treatment than I do . I can prescribe a treatment to save a persons life, and I am responsible to make sure the patient takes the treatment, for if I do not and some adverse event takes place, I am liable, not the patient.
So if any of this doesn't make sense and if you were required to do these things, would that first paragraph start to makes sense?
The next thing I would say if I was being told this is well...quit, no one is keep you there so quit complaining. And I fully agree with you (or myself in this instance), for as of next year I will never see a patient again, well maybe for one month a year but they will be sedated by the time I get there, so its ok.
I bring this up not simply to complain but, to really stress how health care, and its treatments are not a right, they are privilege. And the people that provide this are skill professionals (some of them anyway) and not charity workers or babysitters (even though we are many times required to be). So making health care required to be carried by all, and payed for by all is ridiculous. All that does is make health care cost burdens carried by the responsible i.e the ones that take the treatments and take care of their bodies (thereby costing less in the system) and makes them pay for the irresponsible (i.e the alcoholic who continues to drink despite the fact that he just vomited his weight in blood, or the diabetic who just lost his foot who continues to eat krispy creme).
Naturally as humans, as animals for that matter we respond to rewards, and what universal health care does is misconstrue the rewards and punish the good. But then again isn't that what our current government does, so not surprisingly these policies are working to come to fruition.

Cheers,
Zachary

If the average person is not fit to run a government, is it fit to have a goverment filled with average or worse people? And then is it truly a wonder why we are floundering as a nation.

Cheers
Zachary

Do we really want a religious government?

I got to thinking about how the voting republicans all want religion to be part of government (now i mention voting republicans and now all republicans). I got to thinking in depth about this, mostly because I've been reading a bit about Buddhism, and how different it's religion had effected government.
As a religious leader looking not necessarily for power but a way to maintain it, a religious backing is the best way. A government that creates law and policy under the preface that it is gods doing or gods work creates a very powerful system. In that anyone who questions the law or policy questions god, and thus they are deemed heretics and not taken seriously. The leaders also remove responsibility from their shoulders. This is because if they laws and policy are the will of god then the outcome of these laws and policies are the responsibility of god, not the politicians. As well they create an unquestionable system, as if the policy and laws are the will of god, you have to take up anyway questions, praise, or qualms to god. And the last I heard (or not heard) was that god has not been answering to questions for quite some time.
So for anyone out there looking to create a question proof government, religion is the way to go. But for our leaders of a democratic government this is atrocity if committed is to be with out forgiveness.

Cheers
Zachary

Nash equilibrium

With all the coverage that is currently taking place on the up coming elections. I can not help but be overwhelmed by the simularities and utter stupidity of current political parties. And how they are taking more and more power from the people the are sworn to help.
And my love for economics and math have led to me to applying a great leap in behavior theory, the Nash Equilibrium. Applying this to the current two party system gives as it seems to me the results of reality today. In that each of the parties by themselves and not playing against the other would do reasonably well for the american public (I"m biased in saying the republicans would be better, but then I mean better for me) but toghter and playing against one another we get a result that is far worse.
And why is the american public putting up with this, it seems common theme throughout america that the majority does not really like one candidate or the other, yet they do not act to excercise their vote elsewhere. I guess that is a credit to the scare tactics by the two big parties, and partly by press.
In other words my friends, economics is wonderful and math even better and the right to be able to excercise free though, speech and action is absolutly priceless so fight for it, even if the fight is no more than filling in the right circle election day.

Cheers
Zachary

ps. Jill I'm glad to hear your response on the last post, and I would direct you to this 56% of violent offenders are repeat offenders, and with repeated inability to show proper judgment for society should lose their right to decide affairs for the public i.e. vote. But then again I appear to have view points drastically opposed to the american public so who knows.

pss if this in at incoherent please forgive me, I am in the middle of a 30 hours work day at the hospital

Suffrage

I have been thinking about the idea of universal suffrage.  And how it is a complete fallacy.  The truth is there is very restricted suffrage in the US.  From minors to, immigrants, those who are insane and so forth suffrage is a privilege not a right and certainly not universal.  There is a restriction on voting because on individual's vote affects everyone as a whole.  And it is in this light that I would like to put out there that person's who commit felonies should have their privilege to suffrage removed.  I mean if their vote is made to affect everyone as a whole, haven't they proved their inability to do so for the good of others, i.e. they have committed a felony.  As above voting is not a right but a privilege give by the whole to a few, thus I believe that privilege should be removable.  

Cheers

Zachary

A good politician

That statement might just be an oxymoron, but lets get idealistic and believe that it is possible. I have come to the recent conclusion that in order to make a good politician you should not have any desire to become one. It seems that the majority of those in office are there, because they have some higher desire in mind, not to do the job to the best of their ability. A city council person wants to be mayor, a mayor a senator, a senator president, always doing what ever is necessary to make that next step.
It would seem that the best person to lead would be one with the leadership thrust on to them and find later that they wear the mantel well.

Cheers,
Zachary

Definition

I was recently in a conversation about what defines you. And the person I was speaking with spoke at length about what she does and how that defines her. And I couldn't help in thinking that this person has cause and effect backwards. To me what you do does not define you it is an effect of what defines you. Bythat I mean, how and what you choose to do are a result of your character, ideals, morals etc. So if you are defined about what you do, you are allowing yourself to be defined by something outside of yourself and is just ass backwards. But I guess the people that are crushed by a failed relationship, or a disolved marriage or being fired from a job are defining themselves not interenaly but externally. So define who you are independent of the external and then you can mold the external to your wishes, sound new agey but I think it will make you a hell of alot happier.

Hope you are all well,
Cheers
Zachary